Hyperkin's FC Mobile II plays your old NES carts any way you'd like

We've truly fallen in love. Hyperkin's FC Mobile II tickles our every retro-gaming fantasy, combining portable cartridge-based NES action on a 2.5-inch screen, complete with TV-out, two "standard" wireless controllers, and a wireless gun just to top off the majestic collection. Even better, the whole kit is going for around $60 on eBay, so we can spend the rest of our suspicious money horde on Joystick Test Cartridges and tasteless cufflinks.

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[gonintendo Posted Apr 26th 2009 10:17AM]

snes controller for nes games?

[NeoJew Posted Apr 26th 2009 10:30AM]

They're not SNES controllers, they're Standard Wireless Controllers.
It's not HyperSkin's fault that other companies don't follow Video Game Controller Standards.

[GingerFox Posted Apr 26th 2009 10:31AM]

blasphemy!

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2009 10:33AM]

I don't mind the NES controller for NES games - hopefull they top buttons can be turbo fire.

I got a compilation of NES, Gameboy, Genesis, Gamegear, Turbo Graphyx 16 and SNES games on a 2 GB Memory Stick Duo for my PSP for $50 from Chinatown.

Most awesome thing in my game collection. Every single hit game for each system and a bunch of lesser known games like Burai Fighter, Metal Gear Solid 2 Snakes Revenge, Air Fortress, Scicross, Section Z, Conquest of the Crystal Palace, and a bunch more.

[shibathedog Posted Apr 26th 2009 11:55AM]

HA, you got ripped off bad. You must have looked like a tourist or something. You can find 2GB memory stick duos for 10 bucks EASY (probably like 1 dollar in chinatown), and you could have downloaded all that yourself for free. Chinatown does have some pretty cool finds though, one particular game store there actually labels each PSP by what firmware it has so you know before you buy and a lot of them sell them pre loaded with custom firmware. Not to mention the mind blowing collection of old school games some of them have.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2009 2:02PM]

Shibathedog.

You didn't even think about the situation before you wrote your stupid comment. I didn't mention WHEN I got the car. It was 2YEARS AGO.

How much was a 2 GB memory Stick Duo in Summer 1997?

[NeoJew Posted Apr 26th 2009 4:18PM]

2009 - 2 != 1997

[ryudeshi Posted Apr 26th 2009 4:31PM]

I believe you mean 2007? lol.

[weirdo557 Posted Apr 26th 2009 5:57PM]

i believe != means not equal to

[Sea Urchin Posted Apr 26th 2009 10:19AM]

They need to release a disk for PC that contains 10-20 greatest NES games, i LOVE Chip N Dale, and Dark Winged Duck

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2009 10:21AM]

"They" did.

google: NES Roms

[mrspiteri Posted Apr 26th 2009 10:28AM]

how can you have found engadget but not be familiar with emulators? :)
Have fun

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2009 10:53AM]

I may sound dumb but what's so good about this when you have to hunt around for old Nintendo cartridges? Considering that with NES emulators you only have to download games online, where there are games a plenty, isn't this the future?

[Prokanda2oh Posted Apr 26th 2009 11:13AM]

technically.... *this* is the past.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2009 11:24AM]

I dare to ask if it will play Battletoads.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2009 2:45PM]

um yes hi do you have battletoads for the wii?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:02PM]

They released Battletoads for the Wii!! No way! I'm gunna go buy it right now!

[Jonzz Posted Apr 26th 2009 1:09PM]

If you use the real games might as well get a original NES, looks much cooler than this. For anything else there are tons of emulators, even for the DS.

[badasscat Posted Apr 26th 2009 2:14PM]

Yeah, because the original NES was clearly portable, and had wireless controllers. It's obviously exactly the same thing.

Hey, why buy a Nintendo DS? You may as well just get a Wii.

[thatdudefromthatplace Posted Apr 26th 2009 2:20PM]

I don't get it.

[Gord Posted Apr 26th 2009 2:28PM]

This with an SD/microSD card slot for ROM support: sweet.
This with the requirement of carrying around a bunch of gigantic physical NES carts: lame. Ten of the things would require some sort of carrying case as big as a loaf of bread. I daresay Engadget is easily impressed; why not just get a GP2X?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2009 5:52PM]

Get a Dingoo A320 instead. Cheap as chips, and has 100% brilliant NES emulation [GBA emulation as well, the others are _alright_ but not brilliant yet].

The scene is starting to take off too :)

[ezelkow1 Posted Apr 27th 2009 7:14PM]

I second the dingoo, I ordered mine last week, cant wait for it to get here, started on some dev work for it too

[LoganSmith Posted Apr 26th 2009 2:57PM]

Wheres the giveaway on this?

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 26th 2009 3:49PM]

Someone want to explain how a light gun will work on a 2.5 screen?

[PhoenixFox Posted Apr 26th 2009 4:11PM]

You use the light gun with the TV output...

[OriginalJosh Posted Apr 27th 2009 9:46AM]

will it work on on an lcd tv? i have a flat screen crt and the light gun doesn't even work on that...do i need to find a rounded crt to get this thing to be accurate?

[Jonzz Posted Apr 26th 2009 4:08PM]

Jeff do you remember the size of the original NES games, it's HUGE and not that portable if you put it in this device. Seeing it uses original cardridges i would say they aim at people who actually still have those, and for the ones that do they probably still have that NES and really not looking for one of these. Aside from the wireless controllers and guns it doesn't have that much going. I only mentioned the DS as an example for something that is portable and does have NES emu.

Now if it didn't just restrict to NES games but any other system from that era, plus SNES and Genesis it might get interesting.

[mikeee Posted Apr 26th 2009 5:57PM]

Ive got every game on all the Systems from 92 all the way to that great year of 83, on just about everything....From Wii, Ps2,3, Xbox1,2,Dsi, for crying out loud if got em on all of my phone!! But in the end the NES will always be the original crack of the entire collection.

[(Unverified) Posted Apr 28th 2009 11:04PM]

i'm more interested in the guts of the whole thing. light guns don't work on LCDs, which most homes have now. also, wireless controllers...i'm really curious if they just frankensteined this onto a nintendo-on-a-chip, and if they did, if it's easy to do